SCOTLAND.
Lieutenant Richard H. Risk is appointed to the command of her Ma- jesty's steam-vessel Tartarus, for service "in protecting the fisheries on the North coast of Scotland."
The death of Lord Monerciff, on Sunday last, draws forth from the Daily News the following biographic note- " He was almost the last of the distinguished contemporaries of Jeffrey, Cranstoun, and Clerk, in the Parliament House. For extensive and sound legal knowledge, for acuteness combined with an ever healthy and reliable judgment, and for indefatigable industry, he was perhaps superior to them all. Independently of these high qualities, he had a strong hold on the es- teem and affection of Scotland as one of its very few undeviatingly honest and independent politicians, at the time when servility and corruption were rife in that country to an extent which had for generations been unknown in England. As the son of Sir Henry Moncreiff, one of the finest specimens at once of Scotch aristocracy and of the old Orthodox party in the Church of Scotland, Lord Monerciff added an hereditary title to his personal hold on the minds of his countrymen."
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